AuthorTopic: I Met the Walrus - 1969 John interview (Read 4453 times)

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatles fan named Jerry Levitan managed to track down John Lennon at the hotel during his peace bed-in in Toronto. He ended up wangling an exclusive interview with John. The article of his adventure is here:

All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007<br />

Well, he made his luck. He certainly put in the legwork to run John down!

Blackmath, don't hurt your eyes. You can play the sound link instead if you have a fast connection.

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Wow. What a fantastic, fortunately un-professionally-filtered recount of a young interviewer's experience. Thanks for posting that!

What's so amazing (among other things) is the kid was just winging it. He moved from world peace into John's work into Beatles collaborations, all without a pause. So glib; No wonder he became lawyer! Still, I'm sure this is what the Beatles craved-- real interactions from their fans, and Jerry certainly qualified.

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All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007<br />

All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007<br />

Well, I suppose interviewing a wolf is more dangerous than interviewing John, but it's great Levitan's effort was acknowledged anyway.

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All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007<br />

I MET THE WALRUS"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message. "

I don't know if someone has previously posted this or not, but I thought it was super cool!

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short.

Wow that animation was incredible! Haha I loved how when John said something along the lines of, "They need to get out from under their parents' wings" they had a little mock record of Paul on a Wings album